Paleontology

PALEONTOLOGY

Marks left by insects on rhynchosaurus bones indicate underground activity

Marks left by insects on rhynchosaurus bones indicate underground activity

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PALEONTOLOGY

Another donation to Brazil’s National Museum

Brazilian National Museum receives donation of 1,104 fossils from the Araripe basin in Northeast Brazil

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Research Itineraries

At the right time

Syrian paleontologist Wafa Adel Alhalabi arrived in Brazil as a refugee, having fled the war in her home country. Now at USP, Ribeirão Preto campus, she is studying fossils from her homeland

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ARCHAEOLOGY

Indigenous peoples made engravings alongside dinosaur footprints

Indigenous peoples carved marks next to dinosaur footprints in Paraíba

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Zoology

The explosive evolution of snakes

A combination of genetic, ecological, and morphological data reveals the secrets of success behind these legless reptiles

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Paleontology

Plentiful hunting in the rivers

Turtle fossil found in a mine in the Madeira River basin belonged to one of the largest species ever described

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Paleontology

Fossil lineage found in Rio Grande do Sul survived the world’s biggest extinction event

Predator lived 252 million years ago and had relatives in the region of present-day Eastern Europe, in what is now Russia

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Paleontology

The injured paw of a saber-toothed tiger

Fossil with signs of infection indicates that the animal, which lived around 100,000 years ago, probably struggled to move and hunt

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Paleontology

Animals millions of years old in Acre

Diversity of fauna millions of years old in Acre is greater than previously thought

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Fossil

Plants? No, turtles

Fossils identified as leaves were actually baby sea turtles

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Electronic engineering

Carnaúba: an X-ray supermicroscope

The longest light beamline of Sirius in Campinas, São Paulo State, provides details on fossil histories, interaction of plants with the soil, and impurities in diamonds

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Paleontology

An iberian pterosaur

Lusognathus almadrava is the first species of winged reptile described in Portugal, with Brazilian participation

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EVOLUTION

The long history of bees

The pollinating insects are estimated to have appeared 120 million years ago on the Western Gondwana supercontinent, formed by what is currently South America and Africa

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Paleontology

Pterosaur ancestor had a beak

230 million years ago, bipedal animal with long fingers surprisingly had a beak

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Paleontology

Hollow bones promoted gigantism in dinosaurs

Fossil helps explain how dinosaurs became giants

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Paleontology

Fossil extends the history of peppers

Chili peppers appear to have existed in North America long before their supposed origin in South America

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PALEONTOLOGY

The ice age in the brazilian pampas

Fossils such as a tibia of a giant sloth, which can measure 60 centimeters, catch the eye amongst the shells on Concheiros beach in the state of Rio Grande do Sul

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OBITUARY

A naturalist among geologists

Setembrino Petri showed how microfossils can retell the history of natural landscapes

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Paleontology

Related sauropods found in Australia and South America

Dinosaur species from Australia roamed between continents 95 million years ago

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Paleontology

Dinosaur fossil to be returned to Brazil

Dinosaur fossil returned to Brazil

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Archaeology

Fossil was a giant honeybee hive

Giant honeybee nest mistaken for a fossil, leading to erroneous geological conclusions

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Archaeology

Pre-historic site may harbor the first araucaria pine record in rock art

Cave painting at a prehistoric site in the interior of Paraná would be the first record of the species in rock art

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Paleontology

A 34-million-year-old flower

Revised description of fossilized flower preserved in amber indicates the climate in northern Europe was milder in the distant past

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Paleontology

A boreal forest from the past

Polar desert in Greenland may have been a boreal forest two million years ago

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Paleontology

The banded spider of Taubaté

Fossil from Taubaté used to describe an extinct spider with a banded pattern and very long front legs

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Archaeology

A 4,000-year-old comb for removing head lice

Archaeologists find 4,000-year-old comb for removing head lice

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PALEONTOLOGY

Myanmar fossils in foreign hands

Publication figures indicate that paleontologists took advantage of armed conflicts in Myanmar to gain access to fossils preserved in amber

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History

Mercenaries fought against the Carthaginians alongside the Greeks

Mercenaries fought against the Carthaginians alongside the Greeks in 480 B.C.

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Paleontology

The first bipedal hominids

Considered the oldest representative of the human lineage, the species Sahelanthropus tchadensis lived around seven million years ago

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PALEONTOLOGY

Presence of water diversified vegetation in north and northeast Brazil 115 million years ago

The formation of the South Atlantic Ocean and increased rainfall was responsible for the growth of forests and plains

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